Game of Thrones’ penultimate episode delivers gut-wrenching choices and entertaining combat, whilst setting the place for an emotional season finale.

Game of Thrones has always been a series where fans should, by now, expect the worst possible scenario to unfold. As Ramsay Snow once put it, if you’re expecting a happy ending, you haven’t been paying attention. That’s why the tidings of hope and forward momentum brought out at certain points in the fifth episode of Game of Thrones,...